ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Class Consciousness, Plebs, Emic And Etic
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Anta02 lecture 5 englishness (and other diseases) Ellen pader (cid:862)participant observation we all do it, but some of us take notes(cid:863) Brought into anthropology the day she was born (father was a famous anthropologist) Book became really popular: half a million copies sold. He did (cid:374)ot fo(cid:272)us o(cid:374) (cid:862)(cid:373)ud huts(cid:863), (cid:271)ut o(cid:374) (cid:448)iole(cid:374)(cid:272)e. Humorous way of speaking in the book. Book is actually part of her argument (cid:862)gra(cid:373)(cid:373)ar of e(cid:374)glish(cid:374)ess(cid:863) (cid:862)my aim, if you like, was to provide a (cid:858)grammar(cid:859) of english behavior. Native speakers can rarely explain the grammatical rules of their own language. In the same way, those who are most (cid:858)fluent(cid:859) in the rituals, customs and traditions of a particular culture generally lack the detachment necessary to explain the (cid:858)grammar(cid:859) of these practices in an intelligible manner. Most people obey the unwritten rules of their society instinctively, without being conscious of doing so. (cid:863) (p. 2) Used linguistic concepts as metaphors for cultural ones.
